The state secretaries of the Queensland and South Australian branches of the AMWU have joined national secretary Doug Cameron in securing four more years in office.
Workers at Anglo Coal's Southern Colliery in Queensland have this week voted up a new enterprise agreement, wrapping up a tough bargaining round that has left only one of the company's mines without a current collective deal.
Former AMWU Victorian branch secretary Craig Johnston has today received a suspended prison sentence over his part in violent "raids" at Skilled Engineering and Johnson Tiles in 2001.
In an important case for the aviation industry, a pilot who breached her training bond by resigning six months after being trained to fly a new aircraft has been ordered to repay her employer $16,366.
The Federal Magistrates Court has ruled that an employer's reaction to news of an accounts clerk's pregnancy constituted discrimination against her, but has thrown out a range of sexual harassment allegations.
An employer that wrongfully suspected a worker of fraud could not have foreseen that their actions would result in the worker developing reactive depression, the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled.
It was fair to sack a flight attendant who raised her middle finger at an airport manager, given her history of being late for work, the AIRC has ruled.
The CFMEU and its national secretary, John Maitland, have failed to establish they were defamed in a 2001 Daily Telegraph article by columnist Piers Akerman that, according to the union, implied they had condoned the "violent, destructive attacks" and standover tactics used in the alleged "raid" on Johnson Tiles.
In a sign that wages are edging upwards, hourly pay rates excluding bonuses are growing at a trend rate of 3.7% a year, equalling the record highest growth since the ABS began compiling the Wage Cost Index in September 1997.
